ORTH entered the Legislature of Indiana as a senator at an age when he was barely eligible to the trust. Indiana was then almost a frontier State. The restless tide of emigration. it is true. had invaded with intrepid steps the pathless forests and prairies stretching far westward from the Wabash. but the early settlements of Indiana (except the old post of Vincennes) were on her southern and southeastern lorders and moved slowly and painfully northward and northwestwardly through interminable and unbroken forests. When Mir. ORTH. buoyant with youth and hope. fixed his home on the Wabash. the population of Indiana. from the Ohio to the lake. was but little more than half a million.
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